• Full ecommerce functionality, including shopping cart, full tax and shipping support in checkout and order management
  
• Domain registration and hosting
  
• Secure credit card processing
  
• Built-in wizards to make it easy to set up, design and maintain your ProStores web store
  
• Professionally designed templates for you to use to design and customize your store
  
• Tools to allow you to list products from your ProStores web store onto other marketplaces, including eBay
  

Which Edition Is Right For Me?

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If you answer yes to these questions, then you may benefit by using ProStores Standard Edition.

• Do your customers expect to see your products sorted into categories or departments for easy selection and purchase?
• Would you like to provide shoppers with detailed product information?
• Would your customers benefit from being able to search for specific products in your store by typing in a keyword, product name, manufacturer, SKU, price and/or category?
• Do you use QuickBooks and would you save time and money by having products, orders and customers seamlessly update between your online store and your QuickBooks company records?
• Do you have employees that may require access to specific areas of store administration to perform their independent tasks (i.e. shipping, customer management, product updates, etc.) without gaining access to all areas of store administration?
• Would your business benefit from posting your products in several shopping search engines, producing highly qualified traffic and an efficient sales channel for you? Marketplace support includes Shopping.com, BizRate and Froogle.
• Do you often place multiple products on sale and would providing shopper's quick links to easily purchase those products be important?
• Would you prefer a desktop icon to alert you of new customers and orders over logging into the store to obtain a status?
• Would you like the ability to issue credits, partial credits or line-item credits to shoppers, based on your store policies?
• Do you require sophisticated reporting functionality from your online store (i.e. top selling products, top customers, total sales, returning vs. new customers, search results, tax liability)?

If you answer yes to these questions, then you may benefit by using ProStores Professional Edition.

• Do you wish to sell one of the following from your online store: services, subscriptions, or memberships?
• Do you sell to other businesses? Businesses of all sizes often use a purchase order system to manage their procurement of goods and services. Would you like to accept purchase orders as a method of payment?
• Do you often conduct storewide sales (placing everything in the store on sale) while excluding certain products from sales in order to maintain those products margins?
• Would you like to be able to offer quantity discounts, such as two for the price of one?
• Do you assign special promo codes to your advertising, direct mail or other marketing promotions? If so, would you like to allow your customers to redeem coded offers in your online store?
• Would you like to be able to hide products from your catalog when inventory reaches zero, or the product re-order threshold, so that shoppers do not place orders for items that are not in stock?
• Would you like your customers to be able to place orders for items that are on backorder and have the customer notified the item is on backorder before they place their order so they are aware of the situation?
• Would you like to be able to view the total cost of your inventory?
• Do you have repeat customers who purchase the same items each visit (i.e. businesses that you supply, customers that return rather frequently to purchase the same goods)? If you have repeat customers who purchase the same items each visit, a "saved shopping cart" is a user-friendly, time-saving tool. When they save their shopping cart, your customers no longer have to browse the product catalog and place their desired items in the cart - it's all there, in the cart, from the last time they shopped in your store.
• Do you take customer orders by phone, fax or email? If so, would you like to have the ability to manually enter those orders directly into your customers' accounts with your online store?
• Would you like to offer your customers anywhere, anytime access to their account information? Professional Edition offers advanced customer service features that allow your customers to view and edit their billing, shipping and contact information, check the status of an order or review their order history, and even make a copy of an invoice or receipt from a previous order.

If you answer yes to these questions, then you may benefit by using ProStores Professional Plus Edition.

• Would you like to offer special pricing to certain groups of preferred customers, such as frequent buyers, wholesalers, etc.?
• Would you like to be able to give discounts to certain types of customers based on a percent off the sales price or a percentage above the cost?
• Would you like to track sales by customer groups?
• Would you like to set up an affiliate program that drives traffic from other sites to your store, and incents other sites to sell for you?
• Do you sell products that need the involvement of a salesperson, such as those that require customization or special handling during shipping? If so, Professional Plus Edition can capture the customer information and automatically assign a salesperson for follow up.
• Would you like to assign your salespeople to specific customers, and credit those salespeople when their customers make a purchase online?
• Would you like to view sales activity reports of affiliates, sales managers, and sales people by day, week, month, quarter and annually?
• Would you like to automatically communicate orders from your online store to the product supplier? Professional Plus Edition can notify your suppliers of new orders according to their preferred communication method, whether fax, email, XML or EDI.
• Would you like to set up a virtual inventory process that allows you to offer products in your online store, but not have to carry them in inventory? Professional Plus Edition can automatically send orders to your suppliers for drop shipment, eliminating the need for costly inventory.
• Would you like to automatically update your customer's order status? When you receive order acknowledgements and shipping confirmations from your suppliers, Professional Plus Edition can automatically pass them along to the appropriate customers.
• Would you like to improve the management of your supply chain overall? With Professional Plus Edition you can associate products with suppliers and view orders by supplier, letting you manage the entire process more efficiently

ECommerce		Standard	Professional	Professional Plus
PayPal - real time payment acceptance and verification
Real-time credit card payment processing plus store card, checks, and money orders
Product Catalog		Unlimited Number of Items *	Unlimited Number of Items *	Unlimited Number of Items *
Ability to sell services, subscriptions, memberships and downloadable content/products
Sophisticated tax calculations to match your sales needs
Payment
Invoice adjustment for most elements of an invoice.
Recurring billing for products and services, such as monthly subscriptions.
Additional payment options: purchase orders, internal department orders and cash (COD) orders.
Design/Customization
Easy-to-use Store Setup Wizard with professionally designed templates.
Context-sensitive wizards that guide merchants through the setup process.
Extensive online help and printed documentation.
Ability to integrate 3rd-party functions (including Dreamweaver, Flash and MP3s) to customize your store's look and feel.
Merchandising
Advanced promotional capabilities including storewide sales, quantity discounts and promotion codes.
Create and manage different merchandising programs and promotions for members.
Create multiple buyer groups including frequent, retail and wholesale buyers on the same site providing unique discounts, pricing and products
Manage wholesale and retail buying groups/prices.
Download of electronic products from the storefront.
Post Sale Management
Automated e-mail look up of lost passwords.
Customer, products, and orders export.
Create your own custom shipping tables.
Shipping options include real-time integration with FedEx®, UPS®, USPS®, or Canada Post®.
Ability to issue credits, partial credits and partial line item credits.
Share your product, order and customer information directly with QuickBooks® and QuickBooks Merchant Services
Security
SSL security data encryption ensuring order protection
Password protected access rights to different groups (employees, vendors, etc)
Customer Support
Online Tools and Help
Priority Email
Technical Support: Tues - Fri, 10 am - 6 pm Sat 10 am - 3 pm
General Customer Support: Tues - Fri, 10 am - 6 pm Sat 10 am - 3 pm
Upgrade
Simple and automatic upgrade capability as your store grows
Demand Management
Integration with eBay.com and eBay Stores marketplace
Integration with popular shopping search engines including Yahoo!® Shopping™, Shopping.com®, Shopzilla™ and Froogle™
Manage email marketing campaigns with Constant Contact.
Create and manage own affiliate program and even organize, track and manage your sales organization
Sophisticated Inventory Management
Ability to organize catalog by category, product name, or manufacturer.
Supply chain and vendor management, including virtual inventory management with drop shipment and supplier notification capabilities
Business Reporting
Over a dozen reports to better manage a store.
Credits, manufacturers export.
Order extensions, related products, serial numbers, suppliers, promotions export.